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healer is motivated, sometimes the hands on the head, sometimes allowing the hands to seek the location of the pain or trouble. I have seen many an arthritic knee cleansed as I held my hands on the knee and declared God's perfection to be there. I have often known discs in the spine to slip into position as I held my hands over that place.
In my own concept I would say the use of the hands in personal contact healing is merely that they are used as a kind of focusing device, for example in a knee, and it is at this point that God's healing perfection is shining. It is that kind of recognition, that centralizing of the divine action at that point, which seems to be helpful to both patient and healer.
On the other hand, some of the best of all healings take place at a distance. I often think that this is simply because the person living a hundred miles away or a thousand miles away knows that contact healing is not possible. Therefore, the whole attention is given to being receptive to the prayer which has been asked for in a Sanctuary. The patient then is much more likely to sit quiet, or to lie in bed at night, with his or her attention fixed entirely upon the presence and perfection of God. This is often the best of all ways of healing because it does indeed keep one from being concentrated on the personality of the healer and turns the mind to the true reality of the Christ.
In the wider vision one must concede that the spirit of God does not need anyone's hands to place it where it already is in the life stream of any person anywhere in heaven or earth. Nevertheless, the function of the healing intercessor is to be receptive to inspiration and to use every facility, from counselling to the laying-on-of-hands or praying, for people at a distance according to the situation which arises. Sometimes sacramental means are very useful indeed. Sometimes a visit to a hospital involves one
